Washington Post: Rudalevige on Trump and the Expanding Power of the Presidency

August 1, 2016 by Doug Cook

Andrew Rudalevige

Donald Trump’s rhetoric regarding issues such as building — and getting Mexico to pay for — a border wall, or imposing a ban on Muslims entering the US stands out “because his promises are rarely accompanied by details on how he might implement his initiatives,” writes Marc Fisher in The Washington Post, noting that scholars of the presidency say presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and those before them have added so many powers that “a President Trump could fulfill many of his promises legally — and virtually unchecked by a Congress that has proven incapable of mustering much pushback for decades.”